Richard Grenell Quotes

As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

My own country, Slovakia, has been there for South Sudan and its people. We made South Sudan a priority country of our official development assistance and humanitarian aid.

The way we need to view aid is as a fulfillment of rights, and Mexico, as other countries around the world, have agreed and signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the covenants of Human Rights and that includes the right to food, the right to water, the right to housing and the right to education.

A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the privileged elites of another country. As someone once said: foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a poor country.

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.

Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.

Tackling deprivation around the world is a moral imperative and firmly in Britain's national interest.

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

... advancing against disease, hunger and poverty ... are ... the moral purpose of American influence.

The developing world is poor. It needs capital.

We see a small number of countries getting rich at the cost of impoverishment of a large number of other countries.

The impoverishment of any single people in the world means danger to the well-being of all other peoples.

What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries?

European countries give much larger shares of aid for poverty relief than the U.S.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans.

It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.

There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not the ones that need to be targeted.

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.